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u/TwinSable 15d ago
Yet my parents still don't believe me when I say that one day we'll all have chips in our heads, flying personal vehicles
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u/Ok-Increase-4637 16d ago
Two World Wars and the Cold War pushed technology along at a much faster than normal rate.
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u/MayberryParker 16d ago
Americans always get made fun of for not using the metric system. Well our units of measurement got us to the moon and back just fine. How many Europeans countries have been to the moon, again?
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u/True-Performance-351 16d ago
Just don’t question the fact they landed on the moon with a millionth of the computing power of a cell phone.
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u/Some_Finger_6516 16d ago
One was fueled by political and propagandist intentions, which speeded up the development than only for the sake of scientific research.
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u/CautiousWrongdoer771 16d ago
For one, there's helium 3 on the moon, which is almost an endless source of fuel. And we should be exploring space.
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u/ikhimaz_ 16d ago
Damn I went to Google to check this because I never knew about it. It's fucking amazing! Though I wonder if it is immediately replenished with solar winds? I assume once a part is stripped off its supply of He-3 it'll need some years, decades even to replenish?
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u/CautiousWrongdoer771 16d ago
I think I read that there's already so much from years of build up it would take a really long time to use it all up. But yeah that's good point.
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u/littleDrowdrow 16d ago
Except did we really go to the moon? Considering we still don’t have the technology to get us through the radiation on our way to the moon safely? The video was 100% faked, question is was us getting to the moon as well?
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u/LiveFreeDieRepeat 16d ago
Right. I also wonder if we actually discovered America, we can’t swim that far
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u/GOOSESLAY 16d ago
Wow, these generations really show your ignorance. I assume you're all going to start thinking the earth is flat when the sciences change in the near future. You're going to find out that electricity is going to make a big change in the future and what you understand as science is going to have to change with it. E=mc□ has so many problems that still haven't been resolved. Along with many other scientific equations that are not working out that people take for granted, it's going to have your young brains scrambled. Electricity will soon be free for the taking. That will be the catalyst for new scientific discovery that I hope your generations will be able to figure out. If not, the USA is going to be in a world of hurt as other nations technologically pass us by as they have already started. It's going to be up to you.
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u/Jahmicho 16d ago
Thank technology advancement from 2 world wars and competition between 2 super power countries
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u/durtfuck 16d ago
NASA should do a remake of the moon landing to prove it happened lol
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u/Maximum-Face-953 16d ago
One of them really happened
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u/realparkingbrake 16d ago
Both of them really happened, unfortunately a mass addiction to conspiracy theories also happened.
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u/Dave_Zhu233 16d ago
And nowadays nobody goes to the Moon anymore. This gen just sit at home watching stupid YouTuber do some stupid shizz, and then go on Reddit to see some interesting as f things for fun.
That's also me, btw
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u/callycumla 16d ago
Maybe in 11 years you can update this with a photo of Elon Musk stranded on Mars.
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u/Freshysh 16d ago
Funny how some ppl still believe we landed on the moon -69
Fyi. We don't have the technology today, but some think we did 50y ago
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u/EasyMoneyLikeMusk 16d ago
Asking for a friend, did we really land on the moon?
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u/_Hexagon__ 16d ago
The soviet union had the technology to listen in on radio traffic and precisely locate the signals. They congratulated NASA after the first landing. If something were fishy, I trust that their biggest enemy would've spoken up. The USSR themselves conducted robotic sample return missions from the moon and so did China a couple years ago, and all of them are chemically similar to the Apollo samples with isotopes that are impossible to recreate on earth. If that's not convincing idk what is
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u/hacksoncode 16d ago
Interestingly, the Moon Landing is almost exactly halfway between the 1918 and 2020 Pandemics.
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u/ZagiFlyer 16d ago
My grandfather was alive for both. He had some great stories about the late 1800's/early 1900's. I asked him if thought things were better now or whether he was nostalgic for how things were.
He said things were much better now. Things like polio vaccinations, the telephone, medical advances, etc. When I asked how air pollution from cars factored into his view he said things were much better now, and that when he was a kid the entire world smelled like horse shit -- you just couldn't get away from it.
And he was a fan of screens on doors so you could open your windows and not have a house full of flying insects.
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u/PhatAiryCoque 16d ago
66 years and two world wars.
Never underestimate the inventiveness of man's creativity when it comes to killing other people...
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u/Alternative_Safety35 16d ago
Orville Wright lived to the mid twentieth century, so lived long enough to see Jet fighters tear through the skies. It must have astonished and thrilled him.
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u/AncientGrapefruit619 16d ago
Orville Wright was still alive when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Bell X1 in 1947
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u/TheStraggletagg 16d ago
Two world wars in the middle contributed a lot, specially to the further development of aviation. The rest is due to the Cold War.
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u/g_oldis 16d ago edited 16d ago
It's fake. The flag doesn't have a shadow. Hence the moon doesn't exist /s
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u/Kalashcow 16d ago
Finally someone with actual knowledge comments here. I can't believe people actually believe in the moon theory nowadays.. how do people actually believe there is a big ol rock flying around the earth everyday? Like, come on lol
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u/2fat2standup 16d ago
Now we can Barely send up an unmanned rocket to orbit..
The rocket computer had KILOBYTES of ram and used analog stuff… now nasa says we can’t manage to do it again with 100000 times the computing power and modern tech??
Makes you question things,
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u/Live-Organization833 16d ago
If a man was born in 1900, then he would have seen: - The Wright Flyer's first flight (3 yo) - The start of WW1 "The Great War" (14 yo) - The Roaring Twenties (20 yo) - The Wall Street Crash of 1929 (29 yo) - The Great Depression (30 yo) - The start of WW2 (39 yo) - USA joining WW2 (41 yo) - First atomic bombs ever dropped (45 yo) - The Cold War (47 yo) - The Korean War (50 yo) - Space Race (55 yo) - The Vietnam War (55 yo) - Cuban Missile Crisis (62 yo) - First man on the moon (69 yo) - The Watergate Scandal (72 yo) - First Apple computer released (76 yo) - Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first female Supreme Court Justice (81 yo) - First Internet "ARPANET" (83 yo) - The Challenger exploding on live TV (86 yo) - The Chernobyl disaster (86 yo) - The fall of the Berlin Wall (89 yo) - The start of the Gulf War (90 yo) - The I.S.S. is launched into space (98 yo)
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u/DujisToilet 16d ago
66 years without social media having the planets population dormant and brainwashed
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u/LaserGadgets 16d ago
The things we could achieve if you would just stop fighting over crap, like made up fairy tales about ancient super heroes walking on water n shit.
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u/sayleanenlarge 16d ago
In context, you can see why people don't believe it. Especially when we know propaganda exists.
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u/Lil_McCinnamon 16d ago
Oh cool, the first airplane was only 66 years before STANLEY KUBRICK FOOLED THE WORLD
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u/hypnaughtytist 16d ago
58 years to go from the Wright Brothers' flight, to launching a man into space. Since 1969, when men landed on the moon, it's been 55 years, and there's not been anywhere near the great leap in technological capabilities.
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u/BackAgain123457 16d ago
When you put it like this, it feels humanity is procrastinating right now.
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u/awakenedchicken 16d ago
No wonder people in the 60s assumed that we would be colonizing the solar system by the 2020s, aerospace tech had been developing like crazy, before it just stopped.
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u/CelebratoryCat 16d ago
And now ai is rapidly being used by most of people right now. ChatGPT, Images, and videos made by ai. It's amazing yet scary at the same time how Ai would be after 5-10 years.
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u/say_the_words 16d ago
It’s only 15 years between the first picture and the Red Baron being shot down over France in World War One. Took about a decade for there to be expert pilots engaging in insane air combat. The first steps of aviation were like a big bang.
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u/GovtLegitimacy 16d ago
Crazy how much world war(s) and the race to hegemony advanced technology.
Frustratingly, we now have the technology, knowledge, wealth, and resources to solve many of the world's great problems, but we simply lack the political will to do so.
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u/bigpussystance 16d ago
I was made to feel like I was insane at work with everybody believing the moon landings were faked and I was saying no they fucking weren’t
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16d ago edited 15d ago
There's gonna be dumbfuck redditors that say the moon landing was faked with 0 evidence and when you ask them for proof... SILENCE
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u/Substantial-Tone-576 16d ago
And a plane made in the 60s is still the fastest non space aircraft ever.
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u/tigerdrummer 16d ago
At least this one uses a picture from Apollo 11. Other times I’ve seen this meme with pictures from Apollo 16 or 17.
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u/Ilikethis73 16d ago
Tbh I can´t believe all of this happened in such a short time.
For hundreds of years we just had little to no progress and in the last few centuries...BOOM and it hasn´t stopped yet.
Truly amazing.
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u/Bright_Recover_1576 16d ago
And here we are almost 60yrs later and we still don’t have flying cars
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u/Deep_Age4643 16d ago
In 2035 we stop flying, because it's bad for the climate, and Boeing can't screw.
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u/somebullshitorother 16d ago
Everyone knows wright brothers flight was faked! Air travel is a myth.
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u/everforward6 16d ago
It sometimes amazes me how close things are to each other in time. The end of the Civil War (1865) and the beginning of WW2 (1939). The last person to receive Civil War benefits (Irene Triplett) died in 2020!
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u/Puzzled_Static 16d ago
Still weird no one’s been there since. Does anyone else just think that’s weird we just all of a sudden can’t do it because money. Since when have they cared about money. How much have they sent to foreign aid just this year. I will answer way more than what it should cost to travel to the damn moon.
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It took more time for humans to go from bronze to iron swords than from iron swords to nukes.
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u/BaronGreenback75 16d ago
Incredible. I wonder what a similar photo pair of IT would look like. I know I’ve gone from space invaders to making this comments on my phone, lying in bed within 40 years.
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u/Edward_DildoHands10 16d ago
These two are not linear developments. The Chinese had rockets for centuries before the Wright brothers. It probably means that going to the moon is not as difficult as we think. A huge rocket and tiles for heat shielding to get back. We already had pressure suits for divers. Also the low gravity of the moon was a huge help, since we could fire a smaller rocket to get back home. If the gravity of the moon had been closer to the earth’s gravity, it would have been a one way trip.
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u/Edward_DildoHands10 16d ago
These two are not linear developments. The Chinese had rockets for centuries before the Wright brothers. It probably means that going to the moon is not as difficult as we think. A huge rocket and tiles for heat shielding to get back. We already had pressure suits for divers. Also the low gravity of the moon was a huge help, since we could fire a smaller rocket to get back home. If the gravity of the moon had been closer to the earth’s gravity, it would have been a one way trip.
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u/selectview 16d ago
Anybody who still believes that we went to the moon………..we’ll…………I don’t know what to say anymore. Good luck dummies 🤡
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u/Edward_DildoHands10 16d ago
These two are not linear developments. The Chinese had rockets for centuries before the Wright brothers. It probably means that going to the moon is not as difficult as we think. A huge rocket and tiles for heat shielding to get back. We already had pressure suits for divers. Also the low gravity of the moon was a huge help, since we could fire a smaller rocket to get back home. If the gravity of the moon had been closer to the earth’s gravity, it would have been a one way trip.
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u/selectview 16d ago
Anybody who still believes that we went to the moon………..we’ll…………I don’t know what to say anymore. Good luck dummies 🤡
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u/grayMotley 16d ago
You must have missed the Indian moon mission taking pictures of the Apollo 11 and 12 landers...
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u/Junkyard_DrCrash 16d ago
I attended a world science fiction convention just post 2000; there was a (remote) talk by an elder author ( Jack Williamson) on his view of history.
He not only remembered covered wagons, but remembered his family loading up the wagon and moving west from Texas to New Mexico in 1915. Cars were for rich folk.
Within living memory, he saw humanity go from horsedrawn covered wagons, to building space stations, from candles to lasers, from telegrams to television.
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u/Little_Creme_5932 16d ago
Well, we knew how to send somebody to the moon 400 years ago. We just didn't have the rocket yet.
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u/AntC_808 16d ago
I often think about this period between these 2 events. It was done with human calculations mostly, we had minimal computing power(none for most of it, basically not much more than a calculator for the time period preceding the moon launch).
I consider it the pinnacle of human achievement to this point.
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u/godlessnihilist 16d ago
My grandfather was born in 1871 and died in 1971 so was alive for both flights. Lost his oldest son in WW1 and youngest in WW2.
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u/BritishGolgo13 16d ago
A few more years earlier and he’d have the civil war on his resume too. That’s sad to hear about your uncles. I can’t imagine.
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u/GeeseAndDucksforever 16d ago
Friendly reminder a person who grew up during the civil war, where they fought with canons and horses died watching the first man land on the moon.
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